Wings
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Description: Wings, 2005 is a video performance depicts a woman in proximity of a close relationship with a puppet. The similarities of these two characters are established to present a version of unison of a subject and an object.
In my works, many of the underlying concepts are based on a questioning of the possibility of bodilessness; a concept that can be understood as an awareness of one’s own body through the images of others. This awareness involves both images of the bodies of others and images of one’s body that others have. My works represent an alternative way of producing art dealing with the body as something that is traced through its in/existence. I aim to explore the possible reception mechanisms of performance and video as a form of art-making that generates an experience both on behalf of the artist and for the audience. I place great value on the encounter which leads to an exchange between the body of the audience and the body of work.
With this work the audience while being on the other side of the screen intentionally is not subjected to a mere identification with any of the characters in the video. The video however is suggestive of an enjoyment with it's anti-narrative on their part. As I begin to produce most of my works with one question: Is the totality of body internal or external?, “Wings” acts as a performance-projection of my relationship to this question in the company of a puppet–a puppet-doll. Then, again, another question arises: what is a doll?
Description: Wings, 2005 is a video performance depicts a woman in proximity of a close relationship with a puppet. The similarities of these two characters are established to present a version of unison of a subject and an object.
In my works, many of the underlying concepts are based on a questioning of the possibility of bodilessness; a concept that can be understood as an awareness of one’s own body through the images of others. This awareness involves both images of the bodies of others and images of one’s body that others have. My works represent an alternative way of producing art dealing with the body as something that is traced through its in/existence. I aim to explore the possible reception mechanisms of performance and video as a form of art-making that generates an experience both on behalf of the artist and for the audience. I place great value on the encounter which leads to an exchange between the body of the audience and the body of work.
With this work the audience while being on the other side of the screen intentionally is not subjected to a mere identification with any of the characters in the video. The video however is suggestive of an enjoyment with it's anti-narrative on their part. As I begin to produce most of my works with one question: Is the totality of body internal or external?, “Wings” acts as a performance-projection of my relationship to this question in the company of a puppet–a puppet-doll. Then, again, another question arises: what is a doll?
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